A picture of a homestead in Pleasant Valley, five miles south of Okanogan. In the foreground you can see a wire fence that surrounds a good portion of the property. In the middle of the picture, you can see a couple small houses. The area was...

Photograph of an old house with a fence surrounding it. Behind the house you can see various barrels and other articles of trash that litter the ground. One of the first ordinances made when the town incorporated in 1907 was in regards to keeping...

A picture of a homestead in the Okanogan area during the early winter, or even the early spring. A wide landscape shot shows the entire valley, with a tiny homestead towards the lefthand side of the picture. In the background you can see the...

A picture of a homestead in the Okanogan Valley in the winter. The photo shows a wide landscape shot of tiny homes towards the middle of the picture. A fence separates the properties. In the background you can see the snow covered mountains that...

Two indians on horseback stop to pose for a picture near T Street. In the background you can see the Bureau Hotel, still in construction and owned by Captain Charles Bureau. To the left is another group of men on horses. They are stopped underneath...

Captain Jim (Kanum-tith) and his wife (Ha-muah) Mary lived in a dugout in Okanogan during their old age. Born 1805, Captain Jim once scouted for the U.S. Military. At his death his friend, W.R. Kahlow, notified the U.S. Military to see that he...

The city of Okanogan in 1907, as seen from across the Okanogan River from the east. The town, newly incorporated in 1907, is sparse when compared to the photo Matsura took in this same spot just three years later. (See Negative number 35-24-32)...

William C. Brown sits on a bench outside his first Okanogan law office. He shared the Second Avenue building with The South Half Land Company, a real estate firm run by A.M. Storch, John W. Forsyth, George W. Pratt, and later, M.M. Foote. Foote...

A man with a hat and suspenders poses for a picture with his horse plow. The land is dry and dusty. Perhaps the farmer is running a dry land farm--in which no irrigation from an outside water source is brought to the fields. Dry land farmers are...

Baseball was the sport of choice for Okanogan and those towns of the surrounding area. Here the team plays against St. Mary's Mission, located approximately seven miles to the northeast of Okanogan. Only one person from Okanogan is wearing their...

The Okanogan and Wenatchee Commercial Clubs worked together in producing booster pamphlets of their regions. On July 21 1910, the Wenatchee Commercial Club made an automobile trip to Okanogan as a way to see the area. The Okanogan Commercial Club...

A view of the spillway and reservoir of the Conconully Dam. Note that the spillway, excavated from a spur jutting out of Peacock Mountain, was lined with concrete on its bottom and sides.
Note: the original photographic print is missing a...

A view showing the length of the Conconully Dam around July 1910. By ths time it was near the dam's completion, and the crest ran 1025 feet. Conconully Dam stood 70 feet high and contained over 350,000 cubic yards of fill. The photograph appears...

A picture of a homestead located somewhere in the Okanogan Valley. A man stands beside two small wooden buildings on the left. He is chopping wood. Around the outside of the houses you can see a fence that separates the fields from scrubland.

Eighteen horses pull a combine through a grain field. Four men stand atop the combine, one of them drives the team. The combine's cutter would chop off the grain, which passed up a chute and into the machine to be threshed. The excess straw shot...

Three images of one girl are placed together in a photograph taken, developed and enhanced by Matsura. The illusion is that there are three of the same girl, or perhaps, that she is one of triplet sisters. This techinque is seen in other photos...

A young Dolly Lindsay sits for a few silly portraits with Gus Vansant and Matsura. As you can see in the photos, Miss Lindsay has a flair for the dramatic. She performed in many town plays and musical concerts. Mr. Gordon (Gus) Vansant worked at...